Upgrading broker servers - help!

Question

Hi!

I'm looking for a solution to upgrade my organization RDS with 2 brokers servers from 2016 to 2019.

I read the online documentation by Microsoft for upgrading RDS and I get an error when I do in place upgrade for one of the two broker servers. Once one of them is in the process of upgrading, it is no longer compatible with the other. Shutting down both servers for the upgrade is a bit tricky, we have hundreds of users accessing the network via those servers and we don't want to isolate them.

Anyone who perform RDS upgrade with broker servers farm who can share advice?

TYIA!

Answer 1

Hi,

1.Per description of RDS upgrade guide, the downtime is required when upgrading Connection Brokers.

"The deployment will not be available during RD Connection Broker servers upgrade."

2.When there is Connection Broker High Availability, the upgrade sequence shall be:
-Remove all but one server from the deployment and perform an in-place upgrade.
-Perform upgrades on the remaining RD Connection Broker servers offline and then re-add them to the deployment

Reference link:
Upgrading your Remote Desktop Services deployments to Windows Server 2016
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/upgrade-to-rds

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Thanks,
Jenny